A long election night in Germany has ended with five parties entering the next parliament and the conservative alliance of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social ...

The CDU/CSU was led to victory on Sunday by the towering Friedrich Merz, who has never served in the German government until ...

The man set to become Germany’s next chancellor has criticised the Trump administration and urged Europe to distance itself ...

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Notably, the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 19.5 percent votes. Its leader Alice Weidel expressed her ...

When Germans went to the polls on Sunday, February 23, three main issues appeared to be weighing on the public: high energy ...

Sunday’s federal elections in Germany were held at a time when Germany’s support for human rights both at home and on the ...

Friedrich Merz looks poised to form a coalition between his center-right alliance and the center-left Social Democrats, but ...

AfD saw the biggest victory of a far right party since WWII as Social Democrats suffered their largest postwar defeat.

Germany now faces weeks to months of negotiations as the conservatives, under presumptive Chancellor-to-be Friedrich Merz, ...

However, owing to a constitutional amendment brought in by a previous coalition government, public spending in Germany is ...

The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), have emerged victorious in Germany’s snap parliamentary elections, dealing a significant blow to ...